ASV: Whoa it's 2009 already! So fast… _ Haha, well I'm sorry I didn't get to update the day before yesterday! School started again on Monday and there's so much homework and tests already! D: Well enough about me! Let's get started!

Pairings: Voting for Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji's pairings are over! It's quite obvious who's going to be with whom, eh? ;)

Alright! Give it up for Luffy and Ace, the smexy brothers who love each other! ^o^

Pow! Our handsome cook is quite lucky to be paired up with… our sexy swordsman! Whoot! Goooooo Sanji and Zoro!!

Alas, I feel sorry for Nami. I guess everyone thinks of her as a sister, but maybe she'll be able to find love later on? Who knows, but please don't flame me! D=

Anyway: SEIJI ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE! He'll stay in the One Piece world for a long time, so no need to worry! =D

BUT: NOOOOO!!!! Daichi's leaving us! In what? 4 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days! But don't worry! His adventure is not quite over! He won't be returning to his home world anytime soon… So go ahead and vote for which anime world that he'll be sent to next on my profile page!

Gasp!: Will he be sent to train with Naruto? Or be a Shinigami like Ichigo from Bleach? Or is he going to travel across dimensions with Sakura and the others in Tsubasa? But you can also tell me any other anime world that you'd like Daichi to go to! But only choose one world, so vote… WISELY!

Mmmmm: Without further delay, please enjoy Chapter 8!

Summary: Another One Piece fan enters the One Piece world. But wait, this time the fan's a boy with stomach problems who accidentally ate a Devil Fruit before coming to the actual anime world. Not only that, a few of our favorite OP characters took a liking towards said fan boy. Isn't he just lucky?

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece, but I do own my OC Characters, Seiji Suzuki & Daichi Suzuki. Thank you! =D

Enjoy!

Oh Boy

Chapter 8: Arrival at Rainbase

Luffy and I were both looking at the scrap of paper that each of our brothers had given us.

Usopp was right behind us, very tired, "Neh, Luffy and Seiji. What's that thing that your brothers gave you?"

Luffy stared at his paper a little longer before saying, "It's just a scrap of paper."

"A scrap of paper?" Chopper asked.

"Let me see that." Sanji took Luffy's paper away from him, "It really is a scrap of paper. It's not a memo or anything." He stated as he looked at it with the sunset giving him light.

Usopp panted a few times before saying, "What the heck then?"

"Hmmm, I'm not really sure either." I said, holding onto mine.

The wind suddenly blew fiercely, and Sanji carelessly let go of the paper. Luffy's scrap of paper blew away and the camel, or was it a llama, caught it with his mouth and began chewing.

"HEY! DON'T EAT IT!" Luffy yelled, hitting the poor camel on the head, making the animal let go of it, "Jerk."

"Luffy, give me your hat." Nami said, "If it's that important, then I'll sew it onto the back of the ribbon."

"Oh, thank you. Make sure it's good." Luffy said.

"Hai, hai," Nami replied as she quickly sewed the paper onto the back of the ribbon of Luffy's hat. "There, here you go." She said, returning the hat back to Luffy.

"Mmm, thank you!" Luffy put the hat back onto his head, "Now I don't have to worry about it!"

I looked down at my scrap of paper and shrugged, putting it into my pocket. I'll sew it into the inside of my shirt later.

"There's nothing written on the paper, is it really that important?" Zoro stated.

"Ace told me to keep it, so I'm keeping it!" Luffy got defensive.

"Okay…" Zoro replied, not really caring.

We kept walking, and along the way Usopp kept asking Zoro to be carried.

"Everyone," Vivi smiled at us, "Once we get past those huge rocks, we'll almost be at Yuba, so let's carry on."

"Whoot! Yuba!" Luffy jumped up and down and walked a bit faster with Chopper and Nami right behind him.

"Nehh, Zoro, carry me." Usopp asked again, very tired.

"Wuss." Was all Zoro said, slowing down so that he and Sanji were at the back.

I smiled and walked up next to Vivi, "I can't wait." I commented.

"Neither can I." Vivi replied, and then opened her mouth to speak again, but abruptly closed it.

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

"N-no, nothing," Vivi replied nervously as she sped up.

I tilted my head a bit to the left, confused. "What the?" I said to myself.

-x-x-x-

"The plan will commence in two days. Have you made the arrangements?" Crocodile asked, staring out the window again.

"Yes, without difficulties," Miss All Sunday replied, "I've place 150 of the Billions on standby in Nanohana. Mr. 2 has been recalled as well. It seems that he did not catch Mr. 3. The remaining officer agents will be meeting tonight. The Spiders Café, at 8 o'clock."

"Very good," Crocodile replied, "It's past 5 already. It's about time they've started gathering."

-x-x-x-

And so in the Spiders Café lay a woman named Paula in wait. Well, let's just say weird yet strong people are going to meet in there and then head to Rainbase to meet Crocodile, okay? ^o^

-x-x-x-

"Oh, over there. Something's shining." Vivi pointed out.

"Oh? Are we at Yuba yet?" asked Luffy, "There's so much sand blowing around I can't tell."

"What is this sound…" Vivi said as she stared, then she shouted, "Something's not right here!" Then her eyes widened, "A sandstorm! Yuba is besieged by a sandstorm!"

When morning came and the sandstorm was gone, we stared at Yuba.

"Oh no…" Vivi gasped as she looked at Yuba.

"This looks pretty bad…" Chopper commented.

"This place isn't any better than Erumalu." Zoro said.

"Where's the water?" Luffy asked, his tongue sticking out.

"Isn't this supposed to be an oasis, Vivi-chan?" Sanji asked, looking at her.

"The sand has risen above ground level. The oasis has been swallowed…" Vivi said sadly.

Then we heard someone shoveling into the sand, and we saw an old man doing it. He kept shoveling, his back facing us, "You are passing travelers, right? You must be tired from your trip across the desert. I'm sorry; it seems that this town's a bit dried up at the moment." He turned his head around and looked at us, "But I hope you can at least get some rest before you go."

Vivi covered her face before letting the man recognize her. But the old man just kept on continuing to shovel and talked to us, "If you're looking for inns, there's plenty to choose from. After all, that's what we're known for here."

Vivi finally spoke, "We heard the Rebel Army has been using this town as a base…"

The man looked at her, "What business do you have with the Rebel Army!?" He glared at her. He began throwing empty barrels and pails at us, "Don't tell me you're thinking of joining them!"

"Whoa there…" I ducked a pail that almost hit my head.

After he calmed down, he said, "Those fools have left already."

We all got angry, "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!" we all shouted. I mean, c'mon! We traveled across a burning hot desert and this is what we get!? Great, thank you very much God or whatever you are.

"That can't be!" Vivi exclaimed.

The man kept shoveling and talking and explaining and soon I stopped listening as I collapsed onto the ground.

"Katorea!?" Vivi gasped when she found out that the rebels relocated there.

"Where's that, Vivi?" I asked.

"Katorea… is the oasis right next to Nanohana." Vivi said.

"That's the town where I got lost and Eyelashes found me." Chopper piped in. Then the camel said something and Chopper translated for him, "'I was delivering some supplies to the rebels in Katorea.'"

Sanji, Usopp, and Luffy began kicking the camel, "Why didn't you tell us sooner, ero-camel?!"

The camel just said something and Chopper translated for him again, "'Piss off.'"

The three guys resumed kicking the poor camel, "Don't give us that 'bwaaaa' shit you bastard camel!"

"So we came all the way out here for nothing?" Zoro asked.

The old man began walking slowly towards us, "Vivi… you just called her Vivi…."

Luffy panicked, "VIVI'S NOT A PRINCESS OR ANYTHING~!"

"OI! DON'T TELL HIM DIMWIT!" Zoro punched Luffy on the head.

"Is it Vivi-chan? Is it you?" the old man kept asking, "You're still alive. I'm so glad! It's me! I understand you don't recognize me. I just lost a little weight."

Vivi's eyes widened, and put a hand on her mouth, tears coming to her eyes, "Toto-ojisan."

Toto, the old man, kept saying that he believed in the king and that the rebellion is ridiculous. To tell the truth, I was also close to tears, but no one saw as I hid my face and just listened.

Vivi merely gave the old man a handkerchief and smiled at him, "Don't worry Toto-ojiisan, I'll stop the rebellion."

"Thank you," sobbed the old man.

-x-x-x-

Somewhere in Katorea, a man was lying down looking up as he reminisced about the past.

"Kohza." A man said, entering the tent, "We've received word from our forces in the other towns."

Kohza stood up and said, "We'll make our move then."

"But we still lack the necessary weapons." said the other man.

"No matter." replied the leader of the Rebel Army, "We'll… protect this country."

-x-x-x-

All of us except for the old man and Luffy were in a room with many bunk beds. "Ahhh, let's go ahead and sleep to replenish our strength for tomorrow!" Usopp grinned and fell asleep quickly on his bed.

But sadly, he was awaken by Zoro, who threw a pillow at him, "You were sleeping the whole time." said the swordsman who carried Usopp.

"Don't compare me to you monsters." Usopp replied, and then threw a pillow at Chopper, "And the prize for slacking off goes to blue nose!"

"But I can't stand the heat!" The reindeer quickly attached himself to Usopp.

Vivi looked at Sanji, "But that's my bed." She stared at the cook who was lying down on her bed.

"But I can warm you up the whole night, Vivi-chan." Sanji grinned, but was soon hit by a pillow in the face.

"And what are you doing over there?" Usopp asked, and Chopper just giggled.

"Oh, you got guts." Sanji cracked his knuckles as he got up, "Who threw it at me?"

Zoro just scowled, "I did, you pervert cook."

"Why you~!" Sanji, Zoro, Chopper, and Usopp quickly got into a pillow fight, accidentally hitting Nami, Vivi, and me in the face.

"Oh my god, just –" I stopped when I saw Vivi giggle at the scene, having fun.

A little later, we all went to sleep, not noticing that Zoro and Sanji snuck out and the old man brought the sleeping Luffy inside. A little while after the old man left the room, I sat up, looking around. I shrugged and left the room as well to uh, do private business…. Yeah.

Suddenly I heard hushed whispers, so quietly walked towards it, hiding behind a big rock when I was closer.

"You pervert cook, you practically invited her to bed." a familiar voice murmured, not sounding that angry.

"Whatever. We both know that I wasn't serious." Another familiar voice bit back, then softly moaned.

I blushed red, recognizing the voices. I couldn't help but peek, seeing Zoro and Sanji in a very intimate kiss… Holy hell, I don't want to see anymore! I stepped back and accidentally tripped, creating a loud noise, and landing on my butt.

"What was that?" Sanji asked, looking at my direction. Dear God, let's hope that they don't catch me behind this suddenly not so huge rock…

"I don't know, let me go check." Zoro replied, straightening his clothes, "Let's hope it's just a rat or something."

I tried to crawl away, but failed when Zoro was suddenly in front of me, looking very fearsome. "H-hey," I squeaked.

"Stand up." He ordered and I obeyed, quickly scrambling to my feet.

"Oh, it's just Seiji." Sanji said, approaching me from behind, smoking a new cigarette, "You saw everything, didn't you?"

I fidgeted, wondering if today's my last living day, "Y-yes, but please spare me, I won't tell anyone, I SWEAR!"

"Shut up!" Zoro hissed, "And you better not tell anyone."

I nodded very fast and as many times as I can. "I won't."

"Good." Sanji said coldly, "Or you'll find yourself buried in the huge hole that Luffy created over there."

I nodded again, but then smirked, "Okay, but you better cover up that hickey, don't want to show it off to everyone else now do you?"

Sanji's hand immediately covered his neck where Zoro left a hickey, "I-idiot! You weren't supposed to leave it in such an obvious place!" The cook hissed at Zoro.

"What? You never said that." The swordsman replied lazily, walking back to the room we all shared.

"You stupid bastard!" Sanji growled, walking after Zoro.

I blinked, but then grinned, happy that I was successful and still alive. Then I looked around, and quickly did my business. Oh boy, how am I supposed to keep this juicy secret to myself?

And tell me God, how in the world did Sanji and Zoro get into that kind of relationship?

-x-x-x-

Somewhere in Rainbase, the officer agents of Baroque Works were waiting impatiently to meet Mr. 0, aka their boss.

"It doesn't seem like you're getting along." Miss All Sunday commented as she walked down the stairs, "I'm glad that you all could make it…. to the city where the people dream of obtaining an instant fortune through gambling, Rainbase. And to the largest casino in this city, Rain Dinners, I welcome you."

"Skip the formalities and get to it, Miss All Sunday." Mr. 1 coldly greeted her.

"As you wish, I will continue the briefing." She replied as she walked down the stairs and stopped, "But before I do… I must introduce to you… the Boss of our organization, whose face you haven't yet to see. Until now I have acted as he representative and relayed his orders to you. But there is no longer a need for that. You understand, don't you?"

"In other words… the time has come…" the chair at the head of the long table swiveled around, revealing a man talking, "for Operation Utopia."

And everyone there except for two people were surprised to find out that their boss was…

"Crocodile…."

-x-x-x-

It was morning and already hot as we said good byes to the old man. He looked happier, probably because he finally got to meet Vivi again and regained his hopes. He's staying in Yuba in hopes of finding more water.

"Oohh, I'll drink it carefully!" Luffy exclaimed after thanking Toto for the small amount of water that the old man had given to only Luffy. I guess our captain did deserve it since he did help Toto-jiisan out.

After a while of walking though, Luffy sat down at a tree and said seriously, "I quit."

The rest of us stopped walking and looked at Luffy, "Quit?" I questioned out loud.

"What do you mean you quit?! We don't have the time to cater to your whims!" Usopp said, exasperated.

"No." Luffy said.

"Idiot," Sanji growled, "Let's go and retrace our steps back to Katorea and stop the rebels… for Vivi-chan!" I snickered, wondering if Zoro ever gets jealous whenever Sanji babies the girls.

"No." Luffy said again, throwing Sanji away a few feet.

"You IDIOT!" Sanji got pissed.

Then Luffy looked up at Vivi, "Vivi. Even if we go to Katorea and stop the rebels, Crocodile wouldn't be stop… I want to go beat up Crocodile!"

Vivi took a step back, looking at Luffy still. The rest of us stayed quiet but Sanji commented, "Sometimes that senseless idiot really hits it on the head."

"Lu-ffy can surprise us sometimes." I commented and Chopper nodded his head.

"That… that isn't…" Vivi began.

But Luffy just cut her off by saying, "All you want is for no one to die in this battle. Not the people of your country. Not any of us. You're taking on a Shichibukai pirate in a battle over a million people are preparing to fight in. And all you want is for no one to get hurt. Aren't you just fooling yourself?" Luffy looked at her seriously once again. Oh geez, Luffy can be such am inspiring and surprisingly serious person when he wants to be, huh?

Vivi clenched her fists, and bit her lips, "What's wrong with that?! What's wrong with not wanting anyone to die?!"

"People die." Luffy replied.

Vivi had a sudden look of anger as she suddenly slapping Luffy, flinging him a few feet away, "Don't say that! Don't ever say that again! I'm not going to let you say that again!" She panted after using a lot of her strength, "That's exactly what we're trying to prevent! Not the Rebel Army, not the Royal Army… No one in this country is at fault! So why does anyone have to die?!" She had this crazy look on her face as she said the next few words, "It's all Crocodile's fault!!"

Luffy stood up, his cheek bruised but he ignored it, as he suddenly punched Vivi, "Then why are YOU risking YOUR life?!" he yelled.

My eyes widened, stepping forward, "Wait Luffy! That's going a bit too far!"

"Damn it Luffy!" Sanji looked really mad that a girl was just punched in front of him, but Zoro kept him down.

And so Vivi jumped Luffy and began punching and slapping his face. To tell you the truth, that moment was funny AND seriously touching as Luffy convinced Vivi that she needed to depend on them more and not only sacrifice her life.

"Try risking our lives along with yours!" Luffy yelled at her, "WE'RE YOUR NAKAMA!"

At those words, she began crying and Nami hugged her to comfort her. The rest of us looked at the princess and smiled, agreeing that we are her nakama.

"Now tell me…" Luffy said as he put on his hat that fell off earlier, "Where is Crocodile?!" Impressive, Luffy.

After Vivi calmed down and stopped crying, she pulled out a map and began pointing out where the Rebel Army was and such. We even began walking, the sun still so hot. I really couldn't walk anymore but I had to suck it up. Usopp was fighting with Luffy for the water and the rest of us just tried not to get too tired.

I looked up at the sun, shielding my eyes with an arm over my head. "I wonder how Daichi's doing…" I murmured to myself.

-x-x-x-

"YEEEEHAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Daichi yelled, and then said, "OI, BARTENDER! GIMME ANOTHER GULPFUL!" He slammed his empty cup of beer onto the counter.

"Oi, oi, don't be so loud." Ace said, sitting right next to him, "And what have gotten into you? Ever since we left Arabasta, you've been restless like this lately."

Daichi just shrugged, "Just felt like living my days to the max, I feel like I haven't really appreciated my pirate life up until now." He couldn't say that he was gonna disappear in a few months… against his choice by the way.

Ace narrowed his eyes, "Right…" He really didn't believe his best friend but decided to ask when Daichi gets drunker. That's when he'll ask the questions and Seiji's dear older brother will be answering willingly.

-x-x-x-

"Carue has returned!" said a messager at Alubarna in the palace.

The said duck was drinking as much water as he can while the King read Vivi's letter, learning the identity of the puppet master… the one who's been manipulating the Rebel Army and causing chaos in the country. The King's hands shook as he read the letter from his daughter.

Chaka and Pell, respected servants and soldiers of the King, argued with the King himself. They want to stay in the palace and protect Alubarna from the Rebel Army. The King, after learning that this was all Crocodile's scheme, ordered to send all soldiers to go and defeat Crocodile at Rainbase.

Chaka and Pell could only admire the King's strength of will as they followed the King's order.

-x-x-x-

Oh man!!!!! Just when we reached Rainbase and Usopp, Luffy, and I went to get water, we just have to run into Smoker and Tashigi! WOW!

And so, after Vivi pointed the building where we're supposed to meet, we split up. Luffy and I went up a building, Vivi went another way, Chopper got lost after coming back from a bathroom break, Usopp and Nami went the other way, and Zoro and Sanji tried to stall the Marines and the Billions.

"WHOA!" I scrambled after Luffy, "That dude is dangerous." The dude I referred to was Smoker, that Marine Captain. Luffy just ran away while I made myself invisible, using Iru Iru no Invisible, and ran after him. I knew that Luffy could take care of himself, and right now, I really am too weak to go against a Marine captain.

Finally, Luffy and I reached the casino where we're supposed to meet, and saw that Nami, Usopp, and Zoro already arrived. "Alright, everyone! Get inside!" Luffy ordered as we ran past them, but they followed us.

"Oh dear God!" I cried out, "Moku Moku dude is still behind us!" Alas, the Smoker dude did follow us into the casino.

"Where's Vivi?!" asked Nami, "Wasn't she with you, Zoro?!"

"No! She went ahead, but I guess her sense of direction is terrible!" Zoro yelled back.

I snickered, while Usopp just glared at Zoro, "She's the one who got us to Rainbase, you baka!"

"Guys, shut up and run faster!" I yelled.

"This way!" Luffy shouted as we ran past people in the casino and we reached a hallway where it had two signs, VIP and Pirates. And of course, we followed Luffy and Luffy was a stupid captain so he went right… the Pirates' sign.

"It's a dead end!" Usopp gasped.

"What the?!" Smoker yelled when he caught up to us.

"Uh-oh." I suddenly had a bad feeling about this.

"Wh-!" Luffy was suddenly cut off when the ground below us… vanished and soon we were falling down a huge, dark hole.

"AHHHHH!!!" We all yelled.

Please, Kami-sama, God, Jesus, who ever you are… PLEASE LET US LIVE!!! I clasped my hands and closed my eyes, hoping this nightmare would stop.

I am sooooo going barf when we reach the ground.

-x-x-x-

ASV: AHHH! I'm done! D: I'm so tired. _

Seiji: *smiles* Good job anyway… BUT I'M BUDDHIST, NOT CATHOLIC OR CHRISTIAN!!!

ASV: … Right… Who cares? *shrugs*

Seiji: *pouts* I do.

Daichi: I'm drunk in this chapter?! What the?!

ASV: Haha! You were great though, Daichi! YEEEEHAAAAHHH! xD

Daichi: Hmph, I guess so…

ASV: Anyway, please review and vote on the poll on my profile page. Thank you! ^o^